22 Replies to “Great Moments In Emergency Planning”

  1. Genius! I’m pretty sure that when they got their highschool diploma’s they chanted SMRT, SMRT! One of my neighbors who works for CN, recommends that in cases like this that fire crews either call in and ask that trains be stopped, or that the fire crews dig under the tracks and along the ties in cases of emergencies to run hoses. They’ll be more than happy to fix the damage afterwards.

  7. If you look to the right of the crossing, there is a gap in the ballast under the rail… but that would be too much work.

  8. Looks like the FD has been talking to CUPE and come up with an improptu make-work project – maybe a 3 day Hazmat clean up from a derailed train, lotsa OT – but the Dumbrowski FD never counted on ….

  9. You’ve got it all wrong. The train goes under the protective device, not over it. All is well.

  10. From the Manual:
    “Consistent with affirmative action hiring and promotion policies, credit will be earned by novel and decorative uses of traditional fire-fighting equipment.”

  11. The railroader in the family says “that ain’t no good, bumping over that will wake us up”

  12. I wonder how far that fire truck will get dragged before the hose or the coupling breaks.

  13. I have a SIL who is a volunteer FF, his name is Moose, not Bruce, and that may just be his doing!!!!

  14. Thanks Kate, I too needed a good belly laugh.
    This says it all, the current safety mafia causes these idiocies.
    S.O.P
    We know the stupid rituals will do not good, cause more harm even, but we do this shit cause otherwise some safety nazi writes us up.
    And we always lose, when fighting this insanity, I am officially”Antisafety” on the last big project I worked at.
    Incompetents and absolute idiots are united in destroying onsite production.
    Workers Compensation are largely responsible, but there is no politician willing or able to correct this insanity.
    Instead they bring in foreign workers claiming a shortage of skilled workers, there is no shortage, instead we have a surplus of activist idiots making sure the skilled cannot do their jobs.
    Once upon a time we had apprenticeships to train new workers to survive the hazards of the trades.
    Now we have safety gurus telling tradesmen how to use their hands.
    It is the classic; “I do not know what you are doing, but you must be doing it wrong”.
    Cause that not how the actor in the “safety video” did something like that.

  15. A ‘lightweight’ diesel-electric locomotive weighs more than 40tons so I suspect that canvas hose will be severed by the first steel wheel. FYI, the heavy locomotives tip the scales at 250tons.
    It appears it is fairly difficult to derail a locomotive.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-8gV4DJZUw

  16. I showed this to OCG. She didn’t see anything wrong with it. Of course, she is Polish and from East Chicago. I think she almost married a fireman up there. Probably would have been a good match.

  18. But all firemen are heros I’ve been told.
    All taxpayers should be ecstatic to pay any and all demands by their hero union.
    Police too. Don’t like that they now live in the nicest houses on the street? Shut up.

  19. If that did work there would be a derailment. Unintended consequences. Obviously no one is thinking ahead here at all.

  20. Trust me the safety rules today cost multiple billions to go up in smoke. Now they even fine you if your not wearing the approved jacket. Even the bosses have lost it with these children of the Diversity,university mob.
    Where dealing with complete egotistical fools who turned their brains off years ago.. Generic idiocy in motion.

  22. That most certainly will not work. The wheels
    will cut the hose like a hot knife through butter.

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